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The name of Cloudesly is a very uncommon one, and, in connection with that of Shovell, affords presumptive evidence at least, that Hastings was really the birth - place of Sir Cloudesly Shovell ; the most ancient and most respectable inhabitants bearing testimony to the long established tradition of the fact. Now, that there was formerly a family of that name in Hastings is proved from the following extract :-
- " Feb. 16 , 1590, the mayor , jurats, and commonalty, of the Town and Port of Hastings, did grant unto John Golden, of the said Toun and Port, ALL that messuage thereunto adjoining and belonging, with all the appurtenances, situated, lying, and being in the Parish of St. Clements, in Hastings aforesaid, and now in the occupation of Robert Cloudesly ."[1]
In the early part of the last century , a Captain Russell, who lived to a great age, and was a man of strict veracity, had, in his youth, been person ally acquainted with Mr Shovell, and constantly pointed out the house[2] in All Saints Street, as that which, in early life, had been inhabited by him.
